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The struts link tag is a render of html <a> anchor element.This tag is used to generate an HTML hyperlink.

 If a hyperlink to the specified URL than the URL for this hyperlink is calculated based on which of the following attributes...

forward :- This is used the name of a global ActionForward to be looked up and will receive control of the forwarded request.
action :- This is used the name of a Action to be looked up.The name of the Action should be a defined Action name from the struts-config.xml file..
href :- This is used to create a link to another document.The URL to which this hyperlink will transfer control if activated.
page :- This is used to a module-relative URI and specifies an application-relative path of the image source which is used by input tag.

The struts link tag have following attributes:- 

accesskey :-This keyboard character used to move focus immediately to this element.
anchor :-This is used to to be added to the generated hyperlink.
bundle :-The servlet context attributes key for the MessageResources instance to use. If not specified, defaults to the application resources configured for our action servlet. 
dir :-The direction for weak/neutral text for this element.
indexId :- the indexed parameter can be specified a jsp scripting element.
indexed :-If true then indexed parameter with name from indexId attribute will be added to the query string. 
linkName :- The value specified here will render a "name" element in the generated anchor tag.

The Following are many other attributes which we can use :	

name 
module 
lang	
onblur	
onclick	
ondblclick	
onfocus	
onkeydown	
onkeypress	
onkeyup	
onmousedown	
onmousemove	
onmouseout	
onmouseover	
onmouseup	
page	
paramId	
paramName	
paramProperty	
paramScope	
property	
scope	
style	
styleClass	 
styleId	 
tabindex	
target	
title	
titleKey	

Directory Structure of LinkTagExample in Struts 1.3 Using MyEclipse IDE



index.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<html>
<head>
<title><bean:message key="label.title"/></title>
</head>
<body>
<h3><bean:message key="label.header"/></h3>
<h4><html:link action="/linkAction">Struts Link Tag Example</html:link></h4>
</body>
</html>

web.xml

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
 "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >
 
<web-app>
  <display-name>Maven Struts Examples</display-name> 
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>config</param-name>
        <param-value>
         /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet> 
  <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping> 
</web-app>

struts-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC 
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" 
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">
<struts-config>
  <form-beans/>
  <global-exceptions />
  <global-forwards />
  <action-mappings >
    	<action path="/linkAction" type="org.r4r.struts.LinkAction">	
         <forward name="success" path="/success.jsp"/>
		</action>
  </action-mappings>
  <message-resources parameter="org.r4r.struts.ApplicationResources" />
</struts-config>

LinkAction.java

package org.r4r.struts;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

public class LinkAction extends Action {
	public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,
		HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{
		return mapping.findForward("success");
	}
}

ApplicationResources.properties

# Resources for parameter 'org.r4r.struts.ApplicationResources'
# Project Struts1.3_LinkTagExample
#label message
label.title=Struts html:link tag example
label.header=Struts html:link tag example

success.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<html>
<head>
<title><bean:message key="label.title"/></title>
</head>
<body>
<h3><bean:message key="label.header"/></h3>
<h4>This output is generated by link tag example in struts 1.3</h4>
</body>
</html>

Output






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